ReportTutorial v25 Overview

Thank you for your interest in Report, the leading Embedded Reporting Solution for Java Applications. With Report, intuitive and sophisticated reporting can be customized and integrated as a natural extension of any application.

This Tutorial aims at providing an overview of the Report solution, embedded reporting concepts, and step-by-step lessons on using Report. To enable completion of the lessons in a reasonable time frame, this tutorial covers a subset of all the available Report features.

This Tutorial requires that you have already installed both Report Server and Report Designer on a Windows machine. File names, folder paths, and screenshots in the lessons are based on the Windows operating system. However, Report can run on multiple platforms.

The Tutorial contains four parts. You can access the information by looking at the Table of Contents, or by using Search.

• Part I: Report Overview
  This part briefly introduces reports and Report.

• Part II: Report Basics for Developers
  This part introduces key concepts of Report Designer, including its development environment, catalogs, connections, queries, business views, and reports.

• Part III: Advanced Reporting
  This part covers advanced features of Report based on a fictional retail coffee chain. Features discussed include how to use Report Designer to create different types of reports for the company; how reports and related resources are published to Report Server; how to manage Report Server.

• Part IV: End User Experience
  This part focuses on the most powerful, yet easy-to-use, web tools in Report, including Web Report Studio, Page Report Studio, JDashboard, and Visual Analysis. End users can use these tools to create and edit their own reports, dashboards, and dynamic analysis without expert assistance.

If you encounter any technical issues that prevent you from completing the tasks in this tutorial, please do either of the following:

• Contact Support at help.insightsoftware.com/s/contactsupport.

• Search the DevNet Knowledge Base for issue resolution.

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